Interview with Jerry Leeman: Today we bring you a story about a handful of fishermen rallying against a billion-dollar green industrial project, shady foreign corporations, and our own federal and state government. All are conspiring to generate a cash cow for...
Author: Sam Patten
Shot, Silenced, and Smeared: One Physician’s Ordeal with Abuse of Process and his Continued Fight to Clear his Name
By Greg Yates The criminal case People v Gosselin took place in a little red house structure known as the “Town of Highland Justice Court” located in Sullivan County, New York. This little red structure is also known as the Barryville Town Hall, where court is...
Trump Turbo-charges DOGE with Reductions in Force Mandate as Musk Seeks to “Right-Size” Bureaucracy
Elon Musk’s visit to the Oval Office on Tuesday was no simple courtesy call, a new executive order setting strict guidelines on how federal agencies may hire new staff suggests. The far-reaching mandate puts a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) “team lead” at the apex of every federal agency and sets a cap on hiring
Steel Exporters Balk at Trump Tariffs, Some Pledge Retaliation
As promised while when route to the Super Bowl on Sunday afternoon, U.S. President Donald Trump announced increased tariffs on imported steel and aluminum late Monday and said America would hike its current 10 percent penalty to 25 percent by mid-March. Tuesday morning, the White House issued a fact sheet elaborating on President Trump’s planned
How to Shut Down the Department of Education
On Thursday morning, the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is scheduled to hear from U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary, Linda MacMahon. Given the Trump administration’s stated goal of shutting down the U.S. Department of Education, this hearing offers a logical forum on how best to do that in
Maine Dems in Disarray on How to Protest Trump
The Kennebec County Democratic Committee pulled its support from a planned protest outside the State Capitol in Augusta on Wednesday that was held as part of a “50 Protests, 50 States, 1 Day” movement nation-wide because of concerns about “infiltrators,” a county party leader said. “I am deeply saddened to report that The Kennebec County
The Case for a Scalpel, Not a Wrecking Ball
By choosing the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as its first target for demolition, Elon Musk’s DOGE made a savvy political decision. While the federal government’s gravy train of spending largesse usually has a beneficiary somewhere in America, USAID doesn’t — the foreign aid bureaus clients are mainly a group of “Beltway bandits,” or
Trump Says U.S. Will Rebuild Gaza Strip
Standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday evening that America take over the war-torn Gaza Strip and reconstruct the ravaged territory on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” “We’ll own it,” President Trump said during the news conference, “Level
Trade War in Flux as Trump Agrees to Delay Tariffs on Mexico and Continue Talks with Canada’s PM
U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke on Monday morning and forged a temporary agreement to delay threatened tariffs between the countries one month, both leaders said. President Trump also posted on Truth Social on Monday that he has spoken with Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and will do so again later
US Strikes ISIS Targets in Somalia
American airstrikes targeted leaders of the Islamic State, or ISIS, in Somalia on Saturday and killed senior leaders of the organization without harming civilians, U.S. President Donald Trump said. “The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is ‘WE WILL FIND YOU AND WE WILL KILL YOU!’ President Trump posted on social
Former Foreign Relations Committee Chair Handed Harshest Sentence Ever for a U.S. Senator
A federal judge in Manhattan sentenced former U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey) to 11 years in prison on Wednesday afternoon for multiple acts of corruption and serving as an agent of a foreign power while chairing the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “You were successful, powerful, you stood at the apex of our political
Tulsi Gabbard Faces Hurdles to Confirmation, with Skepticism from Collins and a Possible Secret Vote
Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, faces a series of challenges to her confirmation and the first major test will be her hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Thursday. [RELATED: Pete Hegseth Confirmed as Defense Secretary…] U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) is one of several
Review: Triad Weed is a Crazy Story You Can Only Ignore at Your Peril – Sam Patten
Editor’s Note: We’re aware of the moral hazard inherent in publishing a positive review of a documentary produced by the Maine Wire at TheMaineWire.com. To address any concerns, we’ve decided to double Mr. Patten’s usual fee. It doesn’t take a groundbreaking documentary to tell you we live in crazy times, but The Maine Wire’s Triad
Does Foreign Policy Even Matter for the 2024 Democratic Ticket?
In selecting Minnesota Governor Tim Walz – a man with even less foreign policy experience than herself if that is indeed imaginable – presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris seemed to be saying that foreign policy doesn’t really matter in this election. But if you look carefully for what’s not being said, the truth














